tall girl problems

beaches61

shoot, my only complaint is not always finding pants that are long enough. I also hate shopping online for them, I got to feel it on me...

Ditto.

k8briseno

I'm 5'10 and I don't feel "fat" around other women who are shorter and of smaller stature but I do feel big. Like, manly. I'm not manly at all. I'm very curvy but I have always felt big even though I'm really not big. I don't like to wear heels because it makes me feel even bigger. My husband always asks me to wear heels and has no issue of me being his height with them on, so I have that going for me, ha ha! People think I'm a bigger size than I am and that doesn't help. I still have about 15 lbs to go before I am at my goal weight but I know I will never be a petite woman. Hopefully someday I will be able to come to terms with this. I am lucky enough to have a best friend who is my height, but she has a smaller stature. I could never be her size, my hips are too wide!

Feed_the_Bears

Here here. It's all part of the age old self esteem girl issue "I have to look like THAT to be acceptably pretty". And it's all a myth. There are many ways to beautiful. You sound like you've got a good weight for height without being a coat rack .... see I did it there, I insulted skinny chicks and that's a double standard! You don't have to fit a certain mold. You sound healthy. You look pretty. Know it.

Everyday I practice telling my amazonian self that I am beautiful, even if my legs don't fit perfectly in the confines of the bus seat.

Feed_the_Bears

Totally feel your pain!!!

6'0'' here BUT learning to keep up my confidence and just own it

I like that. "Own it".

BusyRaeNOTBusty

Find taller friends? I'm 5'9". My two best friends in college were 5'10" and 5'11", plus I had another female friend who was 6'6". I rarely think of myself as "tall" anymore.

1shauna1

OP, I would kill (almost literally! lol) be 160. I'm 5'10 and.....much more than that. Rock your heels, who cares! You are definitely not fat, you're fabulous.

NikiaSue

shoot, my only complaint is not always finding pants that are long enough. I also hate shopping online for them, I got to feel it on me...

short rant done :happy:

This is my only complaint too! I'm 5'10 and I have one company I can get jeans from that I actually like.

It's quite ironic that my best friend is 5' and has to have everything taken up.:laugh:

oh the irony lol

jennifer_a00

5'10 here. My husband is 5 inches shorter than me. In high school I towered over all my petite shorty friends. It doesn't bother me anymore, but I got bad posture from always slumping over or hunching down, which was stupid, because I was still taller than my friends. It's ok, these days I just tease all the shortys around me when they need my help getting things on the top shelf, or screwing in lightbulbs, etc., and my kids are tall, which makes me happy

Jennisin1

nope... cause I got a "Merry Christmas, will you look at that" as I walked down the street in the city today. I have no problem being a tall, sexy girl.

xmarykaterose

I'm 5'8 and I hate how everyone looks at you like you're some huge monster when you walk around in heels. My biggest inspirations are Miranda Kerr and Adriana Lima who always walk around in public in 4-5inch heels. If they can do it, I totally can LOL. if you hang out with all your tall friends in public, you get all the attention. not bad!

FrankieFrench1

I love being tall! But finding female jackets that fit my arm and body length is basically impossible thank god for feminine mens clothing.

krawhitham

I'm not tall, I'm average height, but I find this thread really interesting.

In beauty/media, being tall is all the rage. All the models are tall. Yet, in society, I do find more tall women insecure about their height than short or average woman. I have two friends who are 6'. They're both gorgeous, athletic etc... and they're also the only two friends who have ever complained to me about their height! I feel like woman who are under 5'5" don't even think about their height as a factor for anything.

Be proud of your tallness!!!

Indiri13

I love being tall (5'10") and I wouldn't trade it but all of my friends are short so in group pictures I'm always the floating head/shoulders in the back of the photo. It does make me feel amazon-ish on occasion.

smallerontopthanbottom

I would love to be tall. When I gain 10 pounds, I look like a completely different person. When I buy pants, I have to hem them even when shopping at the petite stores. Skirts look terrible on me.

Do we all want what we don't have?

seltzermint555

I'm 5'7'' and all the women I work with are 5'1'' or 5'2''. I decided to screw it and wore 4 inch heels to work because I was already the super tall one anyway.

I hear this! I'm 5'8" and most of my friends are all 5'3" or so and I wear my heeled ankle boots and tower over them in photographs but that is perfectly ok with me!

Swiftdogs

I'm 5'9" and have always like being tall, especially in a professional environment. It's hard to "look down on" someone you have to look up to . My problem is I'm a klutz ... a big klutz.

spikrgrl503

I'm 6' tall but all of my bridesmaids were under 5'5. In my wedding photos I towered over all of them, but the family picture with my three brothers (6'2, 6'3, and 6'6) I felt super dainty haha

I love being eye to eye with my husband. It has made lots of things easier, like moving furniture. You dont think about dual-carrying things until there's a big height discrepancy

Edit: I only recently decided that I liked wearing heels. People look at my feet anyway to check if I'm wearing heels. May as well wear them and look cute!

mikes99mail

this is where I stand to find the tall'uns, eh? Grand.

(please wear heels!!)

sandy_gee

this is where I stand to find the tall'uns, eh? Grand.

(please wear heels!!)

You EH'd so I had to check but you're not Canadian. False advertisement!

littlepaws85

Hi fellow tall girls!

I still struggle with confidence issues around being taller than all of my friends. I have always been tall and used to stoop when I was younger because I didn't want to stand out. I always remember someone telling me being tall wasn't very feminine

It is great to hear though that so many of you ladies are embracing your tall-ness! I hope to be able to learn to love my height one day. Hopefully its soon, its already been 28 years!!

purpleroxmysocks

I am 5'9" and 170lb. I know that I am a little chubby but even when I as 150 I felt huge. Short girls an be chubby too and they are still so "cute" while I am always referred to as "big". Even though I am tall I still feel pressure to get down to about 130-135 because I don' want to be the fat friend. Being tall sucks sometimes, oh yeah and i I want to take pictures with my friends I'd better not wear heels unless I want to be a whole head taller than them.

Graelwyn75

My height has always been a bother to me. I reached about 5'9 by the age of 13, so was heavier than many of my classmates, and partly as a result of this insecurity, I started dieting and developed anorexia.
I was 5'11 at my peak, but lost an inch due to my ED.
I am now 5'10. I have never been clinically overweight, but I have always felt like a great lump, to be honest, and not at all feminine, as a result of my height. I have had a hard time accepting that I cannot be this height, and weigh the same as someone inches shorter. Not without compromising my health anyway, so I have simply settled on being 135-142 Ibs, which is the range my body settles in naturally.

GertrudeHorse

My height has always been a bother to me. I reached about 5'9 by the age of 13, so was heavier than many of my classmates, and partly as a result of this insecurity, I started dieting and developed anorexia.

Short girls can be chubby too and they are still so "cute" while I am always referred to as "big".

I relate to this a fair bit. I'm 6'1" and had finished growing by the time I was 12 so I always felt super conspicuous. I remember when we were about 7 or 8 and got weighed at school, all the other kids in the class were like 30-35 kg (66-77 lbs) and I was almost 45 kg (99 pounds). I felt so enormous like I just occupied too much space -- and this is something I still struggle with. Of course, at that age I didn't understand that being tall meant you had to weigh more. Combine that with numerous comments I've received throughout my life like "wow you're so massive" or "you're a big girl" -- referring to my height of course, but I never interpreted it that way.

I often feel like a behemoth, but I'm learning to love my height as an adult. Fortunately my husband is four inches taller than me so it makes me feel tiny, which is a nice change. And I can rock heels without feeling ridiculous! But, yeah, it's still difficult when short people say that size 12 is overweight, or you hear people talking about feeling so gross at 120 pounds. Umm...yeah.

Having said that, there are a few perks to being tall: your maintenance intake is <1000 calories per day more than a short person's would be, you can always reach the top shelf, you can find people in crowds easily, you can make short men feel really insecure, and you can gain a fair bit of weight before it starts to look obvious. Of course it sucks finding pants/shoes that fit, and long-haul flights are an absolute b*tch. But guess you gotta make the most of it :-)

xmarykaterose

I am 5'9" and 170lb. I know that I am a little chubby but even when I as 150 I felt huge. Short girls an be chubby too and they are still so "cute" while I am always referred to as "big". Even though I am tall I still feel pressure to get down to about 130-135 because I don' want to be the fat friend. Being tall sucks sometimes, oh yeah and i I want to take pictures with my friends I'd better not wear heels unless I want to be a whole head taller than them.

I feel the same!! People say its easier to be fat and tall because you look more proportionate but in reality, an extra 10lbs stands out a lot more on a tall person vs a short person. I definitely can't make chubby look good haha. Just more incentive to get healthy!! I have lots of tall friends so we don't look awkward together. Everyone looks up to a group of tall girls lol.

lemonshredding

5"9.5 and 145lbs - I don't wear heels apart from when I want to accentuate the long legs us tall gals are blessed with!

Otherwise they are an evil device made by men to make it harder for us to run away

Graelwyn75

5"9.5 and 145lbs - I don't wear heels apart from when I want to accentuate the long legs us tall gals are blessed with!

Otherwise they are an evil device made by men to make it harder for us to run away

I have never even tried on a pair of heels... I can imagine it would not turn out too well if I did, as balance isn't my strong point, lol.

Newmefor40

I feel your pain and dating sucks for tall women! Petite women have so many more options.

lemonshredding

5"9.5 and 145lbs - I don't wear heels apart from when I want to accentuate the long legs us tall gals are blessed with!

Otherwise they are an evil device made by men to make it harder for us to run away

I have never even tried on a pair of heels... I can imagine it would not turn out too well if I did, as balance isn't my strong point, lol.

Lol! Yeah the last time I tried there was a stumble here or there. I think people thought I was tipsy, I don't even drink

2013sk

I know exactly what you mean - All my friends are 5ft 4 and a size 8.

I feel like a whale compared too them!

When I was younger I hated being so tall, but I must admit maybe because I am getting older, I actually like being 5ft 9. Its funny because all my 5 ft 4 mates all say they wish they had long legs like mine......... : )

We can never win hahahaha!!

catb58

I'm envious of you all!

Just over 5'4" here and am always climbing on chairs, stepstools and up on counters trying to reach things! And then there's trying to climb into my truck. :laugh: